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Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

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Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#71

I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible. It's still WIP but I've been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension a…

Have you looked at vivialdi? It has a very awesome calendar based history page

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/navigation/history/

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#72

I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible. It's still WIP but I've been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension a…

The only note I have to share is that your idea is great.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#73

I always start my day with an empty browser window, otherwise I immediately become distracted by the no longer relevant tabs of yesterday. I have opposite problems: it is impossible to make Firefox forget its session after reboot or shutting down the computer.

You mean, it's impossible unless you go to Preferences and choose to do exactly that? Settings/General, uncheck "Open previous windows and tabs".

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#74

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if you are referring to this change, i don't think it is related to synching between browsers: "Sync autosaved sessions with all views in real-time"

Oh, thanks, my bad, I got it wrong. I also checked using two devices that it doesn't actually sync anything via Firefox Accounts. By the way, Tab Session Manager [1] (another contender) can sync via Google Drive across different browsers (Firefox/Chrome). [1] https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

Floccus and Tabli are also excellent choices

https://github.com/floccusaddon/floccus

https://github.com/antonycourtney/tabli

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#75
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It doesn't get synced anywhere - "cross-browser" in this case means that the extension works in multiple different browsers, but you still have to manually export/import sessions between them.

thanks for the clarification, what an awful workflow

I'm using at least 4-5 browsers a day, can't imagine having to take manual steps between those.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#77

I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible. It's still WIP but I've been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension a…

The only note I have to share is that your idea is great.

haha thanks, trying to work towards a show HN

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#78

I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible. It's still WIP but I've been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension a…

Have you looked at vivialdi? It has a very awesome calendar based history page https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/navigation/history/

wow! this is awesome. I keep a daily journal with logseq and it feels similar to this. I like the idea of distilling someone’s day of browsing down to only relevant bits.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#79

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The tabs pile up, not because I hoard them, but because the task has not been finished yet. I start researching a thing, or troubleshoot a problem, and I dig for some time. This digging generally routes me to places of internet not found or shown by my search engine of choice, hence if I close that set of tabs, I'll lose another half day to find them. However, I can't touch that set of tabs, because a small or anothe…

In Firefox anyway there’s a feature to “bookmark all open tabs” which I use for this scenario. It creates a bookmark folder with everything you have open.

Does it bookmark all windows' tabs, or only the active window's one?

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#80
Unfortunately I can not find any session manager that can compete with Session Buddy:

* Tab Session Manager loads ALL of the sessions when you bring up the interface, in my case causing it to consume all of the CPU for a good couple of minutes.

* Tab Session Manager does not present me with currently open incognito windows and tabs.

* Sessionic opens tabs in NEW normal (not-incognito) windows when you click on them.

In contrast, I can simply and quickly open Session Buddy and be greeted with a full page (so not just a pop up window) overview of currently open windows and their tabs, when I click on one of them, I'm taken to that tab in that window. If I click on a tab which isn't open (in a previously saved session), then the tab opens in an incognito window.

Seems that only Session Buddy has this behavior currently.

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